User talk:Milwaukeecivilrights

August 2010
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you have been adding your signature to some of your article contributions, such as the edit you made to Timeline of the African American Civil Rights Movement. This is a simple mistake to make and is easy to correct. For future reference, the need to associate edits with users is taken care of by an article's edit history. Therefore, you should use your signature only when contributing to talk pages, the Village Pump, or other such discussion pages. For a better understanding of what distinguishes articles from these type of pages, please see What is an article?. Again, thank you for contributing, and enjoy your Wikipedia experience! Thank you. &#124; Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  21:09, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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Hello, Milwaukeecivilrights, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Abby Kelleyite (talk) 22:20, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
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I see you added some reference info. Thanks. Someone reverted it because it wasn't formatted as a footnote. Here's a useful template for book footnotes (it really helps to add page numbers): You don't have to fill in every parameter but the more you can, the more helpful it is to people trying to verify the information or who want to learn about the topic. Abby Kelleyite (talk) 22:25, 1 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I was able to read enough via Google books of the reference you provided to feel comfortable about adding it myself to the article. I changed the wording around a bit, since it supports violence in Milwaukee but not Chicago, and "often" is a difficult word. I thought of maybe going with "on more than one occasion" or something like that but decided to just leave it with "where whites attacked non-violent protesters" and letting the reader go to the source to learn more. I'm looking forward to reading the whole book when I next get to the library. Thanks for the poetry suggestion, too. I hope you'll stay around and contribute more. Abby Kelleyite (talk) 07:18, 2 August 2010 (UTC)